Naw, most of the TSAB Walmart wearing bunch get free tickets from their whale donor bosses.
Neighbor is a big Tiger person apparently with great seats. Usually sells off the biggest home game tickets to cover TAF costs; would either go to other games or give away tickets, depending on time game was. Legacy ticket holder, apparently a lot of them do this.
the couple of games that I drove home after and TSAB was playing, the upper deck looked empty from the I-10 bridge going into BR. and one was the Alabama game around half time
We were in Tiger Stadium last Saturday for Oklahoma, as my wife's grandfather is a lifelong Oklahoma fan and this may be his last chance to go to a game, so they turned it into an impromptu family reunion. We didn't plan on actually going to the game, but someone basically gave away tickets in Section 102 to us, so we jumped on the chance to take the kids.
Even at half full (because of the cold), that stadium is just a different experience altogether than anything we could ever hope for. And honestly, I've always said it was because they do 'cooler' stuff than us, but really it's just the sheer number of people in there.
Most people at the tailgate were saying that they didn't expect much of a crowd because of the weather and because their "season is over". And yet that place was loud is all hell. By comparison, if playoff berths are how your fans deem your season a success or not, our season has been over since South AL. So we shouldn't be surprised by the same apathy from casual football fans.
Trying to out-football them is never going to work, but we might be able to out-Louisiana them. But that would require leaning heavily into the "Louisiana likes to party" reputation that defines our state, which this administration seems to avoid like the plague, and LSU embraces at every opportunity
Yep JaxMC.
The old adage "people want to be where people are" is true... at least for a little while.
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